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Almtuna IS is a
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club based in
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and is currently playing in
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, the second highest league of ice hockey in Sweden. The team maintained its place in the Allsvenskan despite suffering relegation in the 2018–19 season following the exit of
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due to economic troubles prior to the 2019–20 season.


History

Almtuna IS was founded in 1932 with teams in
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,
bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...
and
table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
. In 1947
ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
was added to the clubs program. In the 1980s Almtuna IS became a strictly ice hockey team, and in 2006 they added a women's team.


Season-by-season results

updated December 3, 2013 Some seasons statistics are not available or have not yet been located.


References


External links


Almtuna IS official website

Almtuna IS fan club website
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